Nikitas wrote:I did not deny that ENosis was the goal in the 50s. What I tried to do was to put in the context of the time: post WWII at a time of decolonisation, by a community that did not have much direct iknowledge of what it wanted to unite with, nor any chance to debate the alternatives.
Megali Idea was an imperial dream definitively defeated in 1923. It was of another time and had nothing to do with the Enosis movement of Cyprus. You only need to think a little to see this. How many people in the outskirts of Ankara voted to be united with Greece in 1919? Was there a plebiscite in Asia Minor asking the Greeks there if they wanted to unite with Greece? In Cyprus on the other hand 93 per cent of GCs, or 75 per cent of the total population chose Enosis.
In Megali Idea you had a series of wars, not just one, between states, in Cyprus there was a guerrilla campaign which Greece supported in a weak and indirect way. There was not a single mainland Greek fighting with EOKA.
Comparing the dream of Megali Idea with the Enosis movement is a manufactured assertion that has no bearing on reality.
My eyewitness friend at university was there with a scholarship from the Turkish foreign ministry. I think he is a reliable source as to the facts he mentioned. He is corroborated by BBC newsreels which clearly show machineguns firing from Kokkina. And also by British military reports of the time. I have them somewhere and will retrieve them for you when I have the time.
Nikitas......Denktas was nearly killed by a man demonstrating a home made grenade launcher to him that exploded. Two men on a small boat were nearly drowned getting to Turkey and back with some guns........In 1963 there were very few proper guns and my mum still tells me of them sitting and listening to the sound of the gunfire in Lefcosa with them identifying the automatic fire of the GCs and then the single shots of the TCs. My father was instructed on how to build these makeshift guns with pipes and other bits. One newsreel of machine guns does not an army make. I would like to see the exact date of that anyway. Even the TC police were disarmed by Makarios.
Don't the TC always blame us for 
It's like he's treding on egg shells and it's enough to show me that HE KNOWS (maybe even subconciously) that he cannot afford to go against GCs no matter how right he is. Theres been many times where BK could of gone on to make his point and instead has opted to keep quiet so as not to upset the GCs. I've said this before but it's these types of actions that are putting the GCs on a pedastal and while they think that they're doing the right thing by arguing with partitionists they're failing the WHOLE of the TC community by doing so.
